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Abstract: This paper presents the design, analysis and to increasing constrain on antenna utilized in terms of cost,
synthesis of a high frequency nature-inspired broadband size, bandwidth and many other antenna performance
micro-strip patch antenna. It is based on the sunflower structure parameters. The state of the art antenna technology allows the
with particular type of the spirals which are frequently found in use of different types and models of antennas, depending on
nature. The reason behind using sunflower structure is to the area of application considered [14]-[17]. Microstrip
explore whether we could replicate the properties of wideband
performance, uniform and stable distribution of electromagnetic
antenna provides a great revolution in the field of antenna
energy obtained in natural structure, successfully translated to design, research, many applications and advantages over
antenna technology. The proposed antenna geometry has simple conventional antennas [18]-[21]. But the major drawbacks
structure so it satisfies the requirements of satellite associated with these antennas are narrow bandwidth and low
communication in form of the reduced lobe level and stable gain [22]-[25]. In literature, several methods like stacked
radiation pattern. The design is using Computer Simulation patches, defected ground, use of active devices have been
Technology Microwave Studio and the geometry of proposed investigated [26]-[30].
antenna offers impedance bandwidth of more than 5.44 GHz (12 In this work, we are investigating a new method for building
GHz to 17.44 GHz) in the Ku Band. such antennas that could have several times improved
radiation performance. The key intention of the present
Keywords: Microstrip Antenna, sunflower spiral
antenna, simulated result discussion, Parameter investigation is to provide a frame work for solving the
specification. optimization problems related to antenna application in
. satellite communication. A mathematical concept that is
capable of defining many complex shapes found in nature is
the key of this new design. Here, a new geometry of nature
I. Introduction inspired antenna is proposed. A simple construction, broad
bandwidth, adjustable and moderate gain are some of the key
Evolution has answered number of nature’s challenges features of this design. Sunflower based micro strip patch
leading to long-term solutions. Through evolution various antenna structure shows a non-uniformly spaced, direct
solutions have been tested and successful ones have been radiating array which is responsible for reducing complexity
enhanced. Nature has always stimulated human achievements and cost compared with conventional antenna. To the best of
and has led to effective structures and processes. Nature’s our knowledge the structure we have developed has not been
ability in many domains are much greater to human ones, and explored before.
copying several features and distinctiveness can extensively This paper is divided into 8 sections. The first section
improve our technology. This is so because a vast pool of comprises of introduction. Particle swarm optimization
inventions has gone through difficult tests of practicality and algorithm is reported in section II. Inspiration description has
sturdiness in changing atmosphere. In order to bridge between been proposed in section III. Nature inspired antenna design is
these fields of biology and engineering one has to identify described in section III. Discussion of simulation result has
biological characteristics and look for equivalence in terms of been shown in section IV. Parametric analysis is presented in
engineering. V. Section VI shows the deep discussion on simulation and
In present, modern wireless communication system, the theoretical results and conclusion is drawn in section VII.
antennas are the most important components required to
create a communication link [1]-[4]. Antenna is a transducer II. Inspiration
design to transmit or receive electromagnetic waves [5]-[7]. The seeds in the sunflower are causable to capture the light in
An antenna is used to transform an RF signal, traveling on a efficient manner, due to their orientation and distribution. The
conductor into an electromagnetic wave in free space. A high idea for this work started with the following hypothesis. If we
frequency planar antenna is more suitable for satellite put an antenna element with a fixed distance and fixed angle
communication. Various reconfigurable antenna have been to increase them from the centre, after putting each point, it is
reported in literature to achieve enhanced performance connected to the nearest point among the points already put,
[8]-[10]. The study of a communication system is incomplete such connection becomes spiral growing from the centre and
without understanding the antennas design and analysis. The their number is one of the fibonacci numbers as shown in
microstrip antennas find application in aircraft also because figure 1. The arrangement has a good performance in
they can be very handily flush mounted on the skin of the
aircraft [11]-[13].The wireless communication system has led
capturing the electromagnetic wave. One of the mathematical seed appears at a certain angle in relation to the proceeding
patterns that can be found frequently in one. In order to optimize the filling of the seeds, it is necessary
nature is the fibonacci sequence [13]. The angle, distribution to choose the most irrational number which is least well
of the seeds and spiral form are some example of these approximated by a fraction [14]. This number is called golden
patterns. The Fibonacci sequence is defined as- mean. The corresponding golden angle is 137.5 degree. With
this angle, one can obtain the optimal filling spacing between
F= {F0, F1, F2, F4} the seeds as shown in fig. 3.
Such as F0=0
F1= 1
Fk = Fk-1+ Fk-2
A. Golden ratio
Golden ratio may be defined as
ϵ = 1 + 1/ϵ (5)
Figure 1. Fibonacci sequence found in the number of After solving it ϵ = 1.618 (6)
seeds in a sunflower [13]. Fibonacci number series is
{2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89……………….}
III. Antenna Design and Analysis If we take the two successive Fibonacci numbers [14]
Spiral elements are chosen in this antenna because they
are easy to design and their shape is similar to a sunflower. P Q P/Q
The basic structure of the spiral is shown in fig. 2. 2 3 1.5
3 5 1.666666666...
5 8 1.6
8 13 1.625
… …. ……………
B. Golden Angle
To choose the irrational part of the golden mean (0.695
approximately). The rotation is about 222.5°angle. In
the other direction it is about 137.5°, called the "Golden
Angle. [14]
(b)
Figure 4. Front view of initial design. Figure 6. Variation of (a) reflection coefficient (dB), (b)
Variation of gain (dBi) with frequency (GHz),
(a)
(a)
(a)
(b)
Figure 9. Variations of “(a)” reflection coefficient (S11), “(b)”
gain with frequency (GHz) for four considered configurations
of feed element
As indicated in case-3, for ground size 25 mm × 25 mm, For attaining wideband performance the ground structure is
provide largest impedance bandwidth in both the bands modified by etching six slots, the dimensions of patch and
(12.35%, 8.21%) as shown in figure 8 (a) it also gives nearly ground are kept same as previous design. The results
uniform gain of around 4 dBi across the entire bandwidth as corresponding to the slots are shown in table 3 . The results
shown in figure 8 (b). show that as we increase the number of slots, the antenna
impedance bandwidth has improved significantly. Till five
The next parameter considered for analysis is the length and slots the modified design was dual band but after insertion of
width of the feed line keeping ground size as 25 ×25 mm and sixth slot the antenna starts behaving as broadband and major
similar dimensions for patch. improvement in bandwidth is depicted in figure 10.
Nature Inspired Sunflower Shaped Microstrip Antenna for Wideband Performance 5
(b)
(a)
(a)
(b)
Figure 10. Variations of “(a)” Reflection Coefficient (S11),
“(b)” Gain with frequency (GHz) for six considered
configurations
6 Singh et al.
(b) (b)
(c)
VI. Conclusion
A nature inspired design of low profile antenna with
improved radiation characteristics is shown in this paper. The
design is derived from sunflower structure with particular
type of spirals which are frequently found in nature. By
introducing defects in the ground plane structure and
optimizing the feed and dimension of the ground the proposed
geometry is resonating in the Ku band and provides an
impedance bandwidth of 5.44 GHz with nearly uniform gain
over the entire operating range. Detailed parametric analysis
(a) is also provided in this work to understand the underlying
mechanism which could be important in designing antennas
Nature Inspired Sunflower Shaped Microstrip Antenna for Wideband Performance 7
whose structures are borrowed from various symmetric Telecomunicazioni Universita di Ingegneria Firenze, Italia ,
features evolved over millions of years of time. This would 2011.
pave a way to an important new line which will require
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Using a Metasurface: Metamaterial- based wideband CP Medical School,USA; Yale University, USA; University of
rectangular microstrip antenna , IEEE Antenna and Montreal, Canada; University Technology Malaysia and
Propagation magazine, 58 (2) pp. 39- 46, 2016. National Institute .of Materials Science, Japan.
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Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna for 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz and Ph.D in the field of Microstrip Patch
Applications, IEEE Antenna and Propagation magazine, 54 Antenna from Malviya National Institute of
(4) pp. 14- 34, 2016. Technology, India. Presently he is working as Assistant
Professor at Amity School of Engineering and Technology,
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Author Biographies
Pushpendra Singh was born in Kannauj,
India in 1993. He received Bachelor of
Science in Physics during 2009-12, and
Master of Science in Electronic during
2012-14 from CSJM University Kanpur
(UP) India. Presently, he is pursuing Ph.D.
in the field of Bio and Nature inspired microstrip patch
antenna from Amity University, Rajasthan.